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> Besides which, capitalism is not a form of government.

But he also didn't say anything about government. He said it was capitalism.




Right, but this can be trivially shown to be false in the case of capitalistic systems with minimal levels of homelessness and poverty and socialist economies with rampant poverty.


I wouldn't say trivial. It's not like most economies are purely one or the other.

And to be fair to his argument, he's talking about stateless socialism.




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